Naso (Sicilian: Nasu) is a town and comune in northeastern Sicily, Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Messina. It had 4,070 inhabitants in 2011. History From https://www.italythisway.com/places/articles/naso-history.php Early History of Naso The idea of a “peopled mountain” (see etymology further down) corresponds well with the origins of the village, which certainly date back to the early Middle Ages, and that, according to Carlo Incudine [13], was founded by people who fled from the Arab incursions. This fear urged the local people (especially from Agatirso and Nasida) to take refuge in high territory towards the first two decades of the ninth century AD. About the origins of it, Giuseppe Buttà (1826-1886), a native of “Naso” and chaplain in the armed services of the Bourbons, wrote: "[…] The small town of Naso, or 'Castel di Naso,' as the ancient historians called it, is not very old but it was built on the ruins of the ancient ‘Nasida’, located in a valley on the left bank of the ‘Naso’ River, almost in front of the present town of ‘Ficarra.’ This town was made famous by the Basilian Abbot Conone Navacita, a very pious man, who lived at the time of Roger II; and there are preserved his relics [St. Conone from “Naso”, in Sicily, was born in the 12th century under King Roger II [1095-1154] and he died, apparently, on 28 March 1236] (...) He was chosen as the patron saint of the inhabitants of ‘Naso’ [...]” [14] Naso is located close to Capo d'Orlando, where there was the old “Agathyrsum”, that, according to legend, was founded by Agathirsus, son of Aeolus. Diodorus (90-27 BC) called it "Agathyrnus": "This town was built by Agathirsus, son of Aeolus, who gave it his name, as narrated by Diodorus in the sixth book [15], but by Polybius (200-118 BC), and Stephen of Byzantium (6th century AD) it was called ‘Agathirsa’ "[...] [15]. In later times, in fact, when Agathyrsum was destroyed by Muslims, the inhabitants migrated to Nasida (or Naxida), a town situated on the banks of the river Timeton, near the territory of the present “Capo d'Orlando”: “[…] This territorial contiguity between the two cities, called 'proximae olim' ['sometimes close'] by a late inscription of the 18th century [16] is perhaps the most convincing evidence in favour of the identification of Agatyrsum with Capo d'Orlando. Nasida also was destroyed by the Saracens, and